The task of opening a new medical facility is a huge undertaking. It requires licensing, permits, community consensus, and financial support to make it happen. Once you’ve got all of that sorted out, you get to the fun part, buying everything you need to outfit your new facility.
Nearly every healthcare provider will need to order new capital medical equipment at least once, if not multiple times during any given fiscal year. However, with rapidly changing healthcare policies and ever-increasing budget cuts, getting the best equipment and supplies at a great price is getting harder than ever. Especially, if you do not address the following five hidden costs associated with ordering capital medical equipment:
Whether you’re setting up a new electronic health record (EHR) system in your current facility, or working on plans for outfitting a new clinic or hospital wing, it’s important to keep in mind specific items related to implementing the EHR successfully.
The logistics of scheduling delivery of new capital equipment can be challenging and should be carefully considered with any purchase. The time and expense of procuring the equipment can be daunting, but if you don’t plan the delivery properly, you may cause unnecessary costs for an already expensive venture.
Keeping up with the advancements of the healthcare industry can be an expensive and time-consuming endeavor. When addressing medical equipment procurement, whether for new facility construction, building expansion or for an update to an existing one, having an efficient and cost conscious process is critical.
During the ordering process, there are times where an ordered product is back-ordered or no longer available, meaning that the department manager or director in charge of ordering must return to the beginning of the process and begin researching for an acceptable substitute. This process can be repeated multiple times and has an immense time and therefore financial, cost.
Hospitals and other healthcare facilities face rising pressures to provide the highest quality care to a growing number of patients but with an ever-diminishing budget from both private and public sector payers. This shift was made even more prominent following the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Everyone in health care now carries the banner of doing more with less. Only, how do you turn phrasing into action?
Hospitals and other healthcare providers have had to face the fact that they must do more with less. They must seek every opportunity to cut costs and increase patient throughput. One of the quickest ways to realize these objectives is to pre-plan the acquisition of your medical equipment. Pre-planning improves the probability of success for any project, from proposal and awarding of the bid, to the delivery and set-up of the equipment.
If you're in the process of starting a new healthcare construction project or undergoing a major remodel of your current facility, then you'll likely need to purchase and receive new capital medical equipment. And if you're looking to make this process as efficient as possible, you may wish to consider Direct-to-Site (DTS) delivery services.
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